Paul Finebaum apparently would not get a say in the place ESPN hosts School GameDay.
The community’s distinguished school soccer present heads to Columbia this weekend forward of a Week 3 showdown between South Carolina and LSU. Finebaum sees the Gamecocks as a curious host.
On The Matt Barrie Present, Finebaum recalled South Carolina followers not too long ago calling into his present asking when this system would do away with head coach Shane Beamer. So he is stunned that ESPN is giving the SEC college a serious platform following a 2-0 begin.
“There was as down on him as they might be,” Finbaum stated of Beamer. “Now they’ve School GameDay. Which, I do not know the place that bus was going. Hear, GameDay is nice, however the concept that GameDay would go to LSU at South Carolina? I imply, that is one of many more unusual GameDay selections in its historical past.”
After opening the season with a 23-19 win over Previous Dominion, South Carolina earned a extra spectacular 31-6 victory at Kentucky. Finebaum claimed the Gamecocks “stole GameDay from Lexington” when speculating that ESPN would have as an alternative chosen Kentucky had the Wildcats prevailed forward of a colossal Week 3 matchup.
“In Lexington, all the scholars had been asking me yesterday as a result of Georgia comes there subsequent week, ‘You assume GameDay might be right here?’ GameDay was going to Lexington,” Finebaum declared.
Per ESPN, School GameDay goes to South Carolina for the primary time in 10 years. Following a 5-7 season, the Gamecocks could make a major assertion by defeating the No. 16 Tigers on Saturday.
Maybe it helped Columbia’s trigger that ABC is televising the SEC matchup at midday ET.
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